Intellectuals

From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

Professor Paul Johnson (University of York UK)

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English

Harper Perennial
01 May 2007

General & world history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Archaeology; Philosophy

"""Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read."" -- New York Times Book Review

A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous."

By: Professor Paul Johnson (University of York UK)
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 179mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9780061253171
ISBN 10: 0061253170
Pages: 385
Publication Date: 01 May 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

Here's a book that should have a cleansing influence on Western literature and culture for years to come. --Malcolm Forbes, Forbes So full of life and energy and fascinating detail, and so right for the moment, that anyone who picks it up will have a hard time putting it down. --Norman Podhoretz, New York Post Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read.--New York Times Book Review